Pauline Parker was a New Zealand woman who, at 16, was convicted with her friend Juliet Hulme of murdering her mother, Honorah, in Christchurch in 1954. The case inspired Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. After five years in prison she was released in 1959 under the new name Hilary Nathan and lived quietly in England and later Orkney. Her death, aged 88, was registered in Kirkwall, Scotland, in October 2026.
She was born in Christchurch on 26 May 1938.
